Front-End UI Engineer
Desk.com is a fast-paced startup inside Salesforce.com, which means you get the best of both worlds: small teams, fun projects, and fast execution backed by the vast resources of a $1.7 billion company. We have the cool vibe of a startup and the dependability of an established player. We are headquartered in San Francisco and have really cool offices south of Market. Hopefully you’re near us, but we have employees all over the world and we’re looking for the best talent no matter where you’re located.
We are looking for an experienced web development engineer with top-notch software design and coding skills, ideally with intimate knowledge of jQuery. Our stack includes Ruby, Rails, Javascript/jQuery, and mySQL and we prefer generalists who have lots of successes at every layer of the stack.
What you’ll be doing:
- Elegantly implement page designs in standards-compliant dynamic HTML and CSS
- Tackle a wide variety of coding problems throughout the stack – we all work on everything
- Brainstorm and prototype new concepts and approaches fast. Turn prototypes into real things
- Work closely with backend developers to find ways to push the limits of existing Web technology in service of creating the best possible user experience
- Be a team player in a flat-structured, highly collaborative environment
The ideal candidate:
- Ambitious, driven, and talented individual who wants to work on significant, game-changing problems
- Able to design and write well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code that balances beauty and pragmatism
- Deep understanding of web standards & technologies, HTTP, AJAX, REST and JSON
- Consider yourself an expert in jQuery, jQuery UI and be able to leverage the power of these frameworks
- Experience with cross browser platform development
- Expert in debugging rich web applications
- A solid foundation/understanding of user-centered interaction design
- Passionate about web development and up to date with the latest developments in your field
- Ability to contribute to well-designed API’s – we’d love to hear about your favorites and why they are great
- Proficient in both Linux (production) and Mac OSX (development) environments preferred
- Familiarly with Ruby on Rails
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, EBS, etc.) preferred
Desk.com is part of Salesforce.com, which has been recognized, for the third consecutive year in 2011, as one of FORTUNE's 100 best places to work.
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